I'm an addiction doctor, and I can't get lifesaving meds for many of my patients
Opioid overdoses kill each day. But it's easier to access fentanyl in Arizona than the medications that can help keep people ...
psychiatryadvisor.com1d
Telemedicine Trends Upward Among Medicaid Beneficiaries With Schizophrenia
Upward telemedicine trends in schizophrenia treatment were rapid after the COVID-19 pandemic, particularly in state-operated agencies.
Center on Budget and Policy Priorities7d
Medicaid Work Requirements Could Put 36 Million People at Risk of Losing Health Coverage
Recent proposals from Republican congressional leaders and conservative think tanks would cut Medicaid by taking coverage away from people who don’t meet unnecessary and burdensome work requirements. ...
New Study Published in JAMA Network Open Finds Procedural Prescription Denials Can Increase Acute Care Utilization and Spending in Medicaid
SAN FRANCISCO, CALIFORNIA / ACCESS Newswire / January 30, 2025 / A new study published in JAMA Network Open has found that while procedural ...
verywellhealth19d
The Medicaid Look Back Period Can Delay Nursing Home Coverage
About 1.4 million Americans live in nursing homes, but how do they pay for it? The majority—nearly two-thirds of all nursing home residents—rely on Medicaid to foot the bill. But getting approved for ...
verywellhealth19d
Why Your Health Insurance Won't Pay for Your Health Care
In today’s complex healthcare system, information about your coverage must flow correctly from your employer, insurance broker, health insurance exchange/Marketplace, or the government (e.g. Medicare ...
The New York Times21d
Key Trump Nominee Hints at Push for Work Requirements in Medicaid
The comments suggested that the Trump administration was likely to seek a broad overhaul of how the federal government administers Medicaid, the joint federal-state health insurance program for ...
Cancer Therapy Advisor21d
Trump’s Return Puts Medicaid on the Chopping Block
Under former President Joe Biden, enrollment in Medicaid hit a record high, and the uninsured rate reached a record low. President Donald Trump’s return to the White House — along with a GOP ...
The Hill21d
Advocates launch Medicaid defense
Liberal advocacy groups are ramping up efforts to protect the Medicaid program from potential cuts by Republican lawmakers and the new Trump administration. The Democratic group Protect Our Care ...
The Washington Post22d
Democrats move to protect Medicaid, wary of Trump’s looming changes
Liberal lawmakers and advocates are moving to shield the Medicaid program from potential cuts under the Trump administration, pledging to resist major changes to the safety-net health program that ...
Des Moines Register23d
Insurers should have to give prior-authorization answers in 20 minutes in Iowa | Opinion
Health insurers now routinely refuse to pay for more expensive drugs or procedures until they have issued a “prior authorization ... Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (the federal ...
NPR25d
Biden's Medicaid director shares lessons learned and concerns for the program's future
Republicans in Congress have begun discussing possible changes to Medicaid — the public health insurance program for low-income and disabled Americans that covers 80 million people. Those ...